Re: RFC - weird stuff I had to do (for fun or profit)

2006-03-13 Thread Yuval Kogman
I have two stories related to files. I'll start with the failure: I wanted to write a Test::Harness wrapper that would monitor all the files/directories that the .t files of my test suite opened, and when they change to rerun only the affected tests. I am still planning on hacking this

Re: RFC - weird stuff I had to do (for fun or profit)

2006-03-13 Thread Larry Wall
Hmm, if almost everything desugars to function/method calls, and we have a generic .wrap mechanism in addition to the MMD mechanism, then the only remaining technical question is whether you can actually name the function or method (or set of multimethods) to which the surface code is being

Re: RFC - weird stuff I had to do (for fun or profit)

2006-03-13 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 08:28:46AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: : The default answer should probably be yes, Or maybe not... After all, the main point of taking a reference is to nail down particulars so you can bypass the identification phase next time and deal directly with your object (or proxy

Re: RFC - weird stuff I had to do (for fun or profit)

2006-03-13 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:37:47AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: : On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 08:28:46AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: : : The default answer should probably be yes, : : Or maybe not... After all, the main point of taking a reference is : to nail down particulars so you can bypass the